User talk:Sqrl mnky
Enoch Powell was not a racist. If you think he was one, you haven't been paying attention to his life and speeches.
I'm of Indian descent, by the way.Manish2542 (talk) 23:41, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
Response to Enoch Powell
[edit]The Rivers of Blood speech is to be contextualised in its times and if you take the time to study his life prior to the speech and later to it, there's nothing racist about him. Why not listen to what he said when later questioned on the speech?
Just read the wikipedia article on him.
He was the Minister of Health who invited the first Indian doctors to the UK, so much so for a vile xenophobe.
Manish2542 (talk) 01:59, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
If simply calling him a "politician" is misleading then what does calling him a "noted racist" lead to?
That's a gross caricature of a man's life and work, especially when he denied these allegations vehemently later on, when he had nothing to lose. His life is not summed up by the rivers of blood speech considering that he occupied various important cabinet ministries during which he took pro-immigration decisions.
Even the contentious speech itself is subject to diverse interpretations and contextualisation.
By summing him up as a "noted racist", you are equating him to an unapologetic Jean Marie Le Pen and transforming the speech into the UK's Mein Kampf. He was a conservative british traditionalist politician of the 1960s afraid of multiculturalism, there's nothing more to it.
If this is some sort of SJW activism then it doesn't have its place here.